This script will access your Twitter stream and create a text file with all the past tweets in JSON format. It also supports updating of the text file in subsequent runs.
The Twitter API currently limits access to a maximum of 3200 tweets in your timeline. Hence if you have tweeted more often than that, you will not be able to retrieve beyond 3200 past tweets.
You need to have Haskell (GHC 6.10 or 6.12 should do) and Cabal installed.
cabal install hs-twitterarchiver
For help, run hs-twitterarchiver
Here is an example of how I use the script to archive all my tweets from
account vyom
to a file called vyom.json
.
hs-twitterarchiver vyom
If a file called vyom.json
already exists in the current folder from a previous run,
only the latest Tweets after the previous run will be fetched and the file will
be updated.
Mail me any feedback you have at deepak.jois@gmail.com